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Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Did Michael Savage do something stupid recently (well, stupid enough to get pulled)? My local talk station has had him on for well over a decade, and he's been quietly replaced with some other rear end in a top hat.

I think of all these personalities, he is one of the more deranged.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2012 09:47

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 01:38

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

whoops

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# ¿ Nov 2, 2012 06:04

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

I want to note that, right after Newtown, Savage called for outright censorship of movies and videogames. No, I don't mean euphemisms or the squirrely talk you normally get out of these types: Savage specifically called for the censorship of media.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2013 02:31

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

BiggerBoat posted:

Not really. No.

I believe Savage was number two or so in the talk radio. Obviously a good ways behind King Rush, but still one of the bigger names out there. When Fox News ushered in names like O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck, Savage took a heavy tumble. He's incredibly bitter about it, and loves taking an opportunity to rail against any one of them using affectionate nicknames like "Leprechaun" for O'Reilly.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2013 04:03

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

I briefly turned on Hannity's radio program, and he segued from Boston into a loving ad for emergency food supplies.

Whoops! Not making that mistake again.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 00:37

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Has Glenn Beck blown the lid off this whole thing yet? Don't hold out on me, Beck.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2013 22:08

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

BiggerBoat posted:

Capitalism and the free market at work. You'd think Rush would love it. People speaking with their wallets and such.

Michael Savage actually has an ad on my local station (probably a national ad?) where he whines about protecting free speech and sponsoring his show. It's a delight.

# ¿ May 6, 2013 21:45

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

It is really funny that they complain about the media not reporting black-on-black crime because they whine the loudest when someone calls out the media on nonstop reporting of missing white college women.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2013 05:25

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Has anyone ever...timed these talk shows to see how much is actual content? (well, "content" but you get the idea)

I turned on Hannity at 5:47. He goes to commercial at 5:48, and comes back at 5:54. This is already six minutes of commercials, but Hannity just does a live ad about some online tax crap. So the show is technically STILL in a commercial break. At 5:56, Hannity finishes, only to quickly pitch his Fox News show for the night and then end the show. It's still 5:56. Over TEN MINUTES of his show is purely ads, be it for sponsors or shilling his own poo poo. You get maybe 25-30 minutes of content per hour. It's not much, even compared to TV and its slowly encroaching ads.

Yeah, it's no secret that the point of these programs is to sell poo poo to people that are either old, scared, or both. I recall a few years back when a caller commented to Rush on how different he sounded on the air than in person. Rush said that was because the program is delayed so it can be slight sped up. The math works: if Rush's program is 30-40 minutes long each hour, speeding him up by 1% would be just enough time to squeeze another 15-30 second ad. They're complete shills.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2013 00:35

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Idran posted:

Wait, Dawkins did that too? I knew about Hitchens and Harris, but I didn't realize he had. Well, yet another reason to ignore him then.

A lot of the Big Name atheists have been exposing a lot of lovely opinions lately. It might correlate with the fact that they're white men who are all entering old age if not already there. Of the ones I remember following, the only one to not spout some terrible bullcrap is...Myers? It's really depressing because there are TONS who idolize these guys and, worst yet, a lot of young people that emulate them :smith:

# ¿ Jul 25, 2013 03:06

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

It'd be funny if it wasn't about flirting with yet another war.

I don't think a lot of people expecting Obama to start a new conflict, and most certainly not the GOP. They have absolutely no idea how to swing this, because calling Obama a coward backfires if ends up going to war, but giving Obama poo poo over going to war would be hypocritical. I guess their saving grace is that we're far enough from the last two wars that they can start revising history.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2013 18:05

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Hey Nyquil, my parents have named one of the dog's chew toys "Obama"

It's a stuffed monkey.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2013 19:25

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Hannity was talking to Coulter and she said we can't trust the polls on the GOP because they only polled adults. I...don't exactly understand what she means by this. Are the elderly not adults anymore, or are minors suddenly a major voting block? Maybe I missed something in there.

Oh, and within five minutes of that she treated Obama's poll numbers as absolute truth :v:

# ¿ Oct 18, 2013 02:37

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

icantfindaname posted:

Somebody needs to start keeping some sort of central record of asinine right wing comments and radio shows. I would pay real world money to be able to go through the years and found every time Rush Limbaugh has said something hosed up 1990 to today all neatly compiled, just to rub it right wingers faces.

Savage said during the election that, if Obama won a second term, his show would be cancelled as part of some evil government law.

A year later and he seems to be doing okay.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2013 17:26

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Speaking of anti-vax, Savage is apparently declaring war on the flu shot. I didn't stick around to hear the details, but it's cute coming from a man who regularly waves around a PhD in something like ethnobotany that has gone unused for decades.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2014 05:38

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Listen to this http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=2013/01/Savage-FLu-Segment.mp3

It's eight minutes of full-on McCarthy grade anti-vax :allears:

# ¿ Jan 12, 2014 05:51

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Phone posted:

The tl;dr about the flu vaccine is that it's a good idea for children, the elderly, and people with auto-immune deficiencies. If you're a healthy young adult, you can probably skip it.

No, because having more people get it, even healthy people, helps protect people who cannot get it because they have compromised immune systems. In first-world countries, the main reason to get vaccinated is to protect those who cannot get it and because influenza loving sucks even if it's not necessarily lethal.

Also, I cannot believe homeopathy is still a thing. I pretty much knew I could brush off the rest of what Savage said as bullshit once he endorsed loving homeopathy.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2014 20:54

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

BiggerBoat posted:

That's what I meant by post a few slots up and someone else hit on it.

Hannity could quit working right now and live a happy life, raise a few kids, live wherever he wants, marry whoever he wants (or not get married) and never have to do gently caress all for the rest of his life, but He Dropped a Slot! So there must be communism and fascism and poo poo or something because now he's "Number FOUR!"

I remember a long time ago someone posted something on a board I've long since abandoned and which had nothing at all to do with politics. I think it was a Prince website, believe it or not. But she wrote that people gauge their happiness and satisfaction not on what makes them happy but around what makes them happier than other people. Something like that. She was right.

It's not enough to have a nice house in a nice neighborhood, a motorcycle, a cool car, enough money to live a comfortable life until your death or whatever. For a lot of people (most of them capitalist conservative Republicans) your life has to be better than everyone else's.

It's a lot like the business card battle in American Psycho where all their cards looked the same but some were on 'bone' and some were on 'ivory'. Some were embossed and some weren't. Some were in this font and others in that font but every card in the pile was the same and all those pricks were already rich enough to do whatever they wanted to do anyway.

poo poo. Sorry for the long post/rant.

There's the oft-posted poll about how people would rather make less money so long as it meant making more than a neighbor. I dunno how legit that is, but it wouldn't surprise me.

There's also the common thing about how money does nothing for happiness after you've reached a point where you can comfortably satisfy all needs and weather any sort of modest problems. I also remember from somewhere about psychiatrists saying that the super-rich have some unhealthy obsession with accumulating more wealth to the point where you could call it a sickness. However, we live in a country that fetishizes wealth accumulation as the End All Goal of the American Dream. Woe to anyone that dared to go on TV and state that there might be something wrong with you if you feel the need to get more money after you already have gotten more than you can possibly spend in your lifetime. Communist!

# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 00:19

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

HootTheOwl posted:

I thought this was common in radio because if someone curses you want to be able to quickly drop them or bleep it out?

Yeah, most places have a delay for this reason. However, you can be sure that most radio hosts will use it to drop a caller when things might go sour. It may look bad to outsiders, but regular listeners will eat up Rush or Hannity giving a liberal the boot.

Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jan 18, 2014

# ¿ Jan 18, 2014 21:48

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Zwabu posted:

If I recall correctly, back in the day when Rush was making his bones and still had an edge, he'd even hang up on a caller using a little "screaming aborted fetus" sound bite, i.e. he was "aborting" the caller, and it was funny in a sick way.

Now, of course, abortion is No Laughing Matter and I doubt he could get away with making that kind of joke with his dour humorless audience.

Maybe not using the "screaming fetus" sound clip, but I'm sure he could say something along the lines of "Let's see how they like to be aborted!" and his audience would devour that poo poo.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 00:09

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Reagan also resisted making MLK's birthday a holiday

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 03:46

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

If anything, I'd expect popular MRA opinion to be that female gods were all motherly beings of healing and fertility.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2014 02:09

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

The interview was literally Healthcare.gov, BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI, and the IRS. Oh, and a letter from a paranoid loon asking why Obama is "fundamentally changing the country."

So yeah, Bill was just reheating 2013's leftovers.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2014 03:02

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Spacedad posted:

Hey look, the demagogue who claimed that the half-white half-black biracial American president "hates white people" thinks a coke ad showing diversity is an effort to 'divide people.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8B_Ihjd_M
I think it's an effort to sell more soda to a lot of people with fashionable tolerance, but morning zoo scam artist Beck would have his listeners think it's an attack on their paranoid intolerant selves.

The commercial literally has people of different backgrounds and ethnicity singing together. How is that not harmonious :psyduck:

# ¿ Feb 3, 2014 23:02

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

As much the scene of Zimmerman getting pounded in the face while "X GON GIVE IT TO YA" blares in the background appeals to me, I feel like this just cheapens the whole tragedy and just in general gently caress giving Zimmerman more time in the limelight.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2014 17:03

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Azuth0667 posted:

"Smoker's rights" is stupid but, their complaint has merit. When I worked for a nation wide pharmacy chain they sold junk food, homeopathic medication and tobacco. Those are three things they should not be selling if their goal is to "help people on the path to better health."

Junk food is really lovely, but you're at least getting some cheap calories out of the deal. Tobacco just kills you while being a drain on your wallet, and I guess homeopathic pills don't hurt you but it also doesn't provide any calories so it's literally money for nothing. Of course, a pharmacy shouldn't be selling any of the three, but this is the Land of the Free :911:

# ¿ Feb 6, 2014 06:03

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

I've been getting DNC mail for years, and they are very much using "Impeachment!? :ohdear:

" as a way to get people to donate money.

Honestly, it's a bit refreshing to see them take advantage of the GOP for once.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 00:50

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Michael Savage went off on a tizzy about how the illegal kids are being kept in "camps" that are really luxury hotels with flat screen TVs, a pool, flat screen TVs, beds, and flat screen TVs (he REALLY wanted to drive that point home). Apparently some company is making MAD MONEY off the government by providing these facilities and...I guess I'm supposed to be outraged that government contracts are going towards helping brown kids instead of murdering them for once?

I dunno, it got into really tinfoil hat territory before it grew dull.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2014 08:46

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Oh god, he's using "gang" to invoke violent thugs instead of "group of old friends" isn't he

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 01:44

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Rush makes a good point. I'd be pissed too when this country basically sucks the dicks of the founding fathers at every opportunity and bites your head off if you dared to question their genius. It's a country that allowed one of the worst crimes, and I've heard that the triangular trade was one of the nastier incarnations of it.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2014 10:15

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

A lot of these dudes are ridiculously insecure. Try to listening to Michael Savage and see how long he goes without massaging his ego. He can't go like five minutes without saying how he's the first to report some made-up bullshit or that his ratings are so amazing and totally beat whatever childish pet name he's invented this week for Rush or Hannity. He has a massive chip on his shoulder about spending his whole radio career in the shadow of Rush. And once Fox News got larger, he started losing listeners to Hannity, Beck, and others as well, which only further wounded his fragile ego. O'Reilly is a similar sort of dude: he'll go on about how his ~~genitals~~ ratings are so huge and everyone else sucks!

I think the only person who isn't a insecure little child is basically Rush because he knows he is king of the assholes.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 22:54

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Intel&Sebastian posted:

ughhhh

Someone should tell him that X-COM was just a video game.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 01:36

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Wasn't Blackwater or Xe or whatever the gently caress they're calling themselves basically a mercenary outfit?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 18:40

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

BiggerBoat posted:

What little I caught of Rush today, he was trying to weave some Democrat Party conspiracy by citing a poll that said married women support the GOP so that the Democrat's secret plan is to keep women from getting married and somehow it tied into immigration reform. It was so insane I actually laughed out loud by myself in my car.

Probably the funniest part of it was the implication that Democrats ever think things through that clearly or are organized and proactive enough to do it in the first place. I'll have to dig up the transcript to describe it but it was some truly 11th dimensional chess poo poo and it reminded me why I first thought that Limbaugh was a parody show for the first two or three years I heard his show.

It was so batshit I can't even recall the logic behind it but I'm sure his listeners just nodded their heads and mumbled in agreement.

I listened to that too, and here is my attempt to explain Rush's :airquote:

logic

Rush starts by saying that originally marriage was done for financial reason, which is considered a bad thing by femi~~nists~~NAZIS. The problem is that Rush is (probably intentionally) not understanding that this goes back many centuries to when marriage was basically a contract deal between families. Rush is thinking something entirely different, and don't ask me what.

He continues by saying that women tend to marry up, which is :biotruths:

HYPERGAMY

crap that again misses the point: women tended to "marry up" because the patriarch of a lower family could use his daughter as a way to increase his social standing by marrying her to someone of higher station. So yeah, it's true but only in the sense that women had absolutely no agency in the matter.

And, according to Rush's source, people are increasingly marrying for financial reasons today because the economy is bad. So femi~~nists~~NAZIS are now running scared because Obama's economy is bringing back the aspects of marriage they totally hate, but only if your knowledge of marriage only goes back like 50-70 years. And then he had some stupid conversation with his call screener about homemakers and how femi~~nists~~FUCKIN' NAZIS hate homemakers.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 04:42

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Holy poo poo, the line :qq:

black outcome percentage is higher than white even with voter ID laws :qq:

really says it all.

Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Sep 26, 2014

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 07:21

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Savage is acting like ebola is the the end of the world.

He's officially gone full :tinfoil:

and was even on Alex Jones the other day. He's openly missing that Obama may be letting Ebola in the US intentionally to reduce the human population because ecoterrorism or some poo poo.

And the whole time it's this constant refrain of "I'm was right, I'm currently right, and I'll always be right." The man's ego needs constantly massaging, and I think that's the main reason he's on radio.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2014 05:18

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

I am still amazed people use Imgur for more than hosting.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 06:55

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

One day Hasters will make peace with their gender issues and be a happier person for it

We're rooting for ya, buddy :unsmith:

# ¿ May 8, 2015 01:11

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Limbaugh just called free-range chicken "politically correct food."

Words have no meaning anymore.

These are the same people who took the Grey Poupon commercials at face value.

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 01:38

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Pyroxene Stigma posted:

This would be incredibly wrong to say about a public figure with a soul. So, carry on as you were.

This link seems to have it all to me: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-warns-fireball-space-if-supreme-court-strikes-down-gay-marriage-bans

Speaking of, if you follow this thread but tire of C-listers like Crowder, check out Right Wing Watch. They report on the insanity coming from the Christian right without editorializing.

Limbaugh was actually caught returning (or going) to an area known for sex tourism, which would be hilariously hypocritical but nothing heinous...were it not of the underage kind.

Apparently he had viagra in his bag :smithicide:

(honestly I hope it isn't true but I've heard about it a few times)

# ¿ May 8, 2015 23:06

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